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Page Two THE CAMPUS ECHO Tuesday, October 31, 1967 Carnp^^^Echo Member ASSOCIATED COLLEGIATE PRESS PRESS EDITOR William Chapman BUSINESS MANAGER George D. Reid, Jr. MANAGING EDITOR - Charles Stokes SPPORTS EDITORS Reginald Hodges, Lester Perry ADVERTISING MANAGERS Robert Chavis, Jr., Joyce McGriff TYPISTS Virginia Reynolds, Laureen Roberson, Brenda Peterson PROOFREADERS Gayle Franklin, Esther Silver Faye Wynn REPORTERS Winfred Hooker, Richard Stuart, Granger Martin, Yvonne Taylor, Yvonne Reid, Linda Peoples, Denise Hodge, Marion Spaulding, Carolyn Brown, Chrystal Brown, Sandra Lynette Buhus, Rosita Bullock, Sadie Smith, Carolyn Headen, Betty J. King, Mary Kolb, Margaret Reid, Charles Scott, Benjamin Stewart, Barbara Harper, Lois Bell. PHOTOGRAPHERS W. Otto Kent, E. Russell Knight ADVISOR Jean Norris IMAGES PAINTED IN BUCK By Charles Stokes A great religious prophet once said, “Man shall not live by bread alone.” This statement is in refutation to any argument concerning the needs of black power as being strictly material, if the black power ethos is still an erroneous misconception. Far more than, money black people still need self-affirmation, a sense of history, a new psyche, and a sense of self direction. This concept for example, has been ably stated by our Presi dent Dr. Whiting, who described “The twin goals of NCC’s qual ity programs which will simul taneously result in attainment above national performance norms and creation of a sense of pride and self-esteem with re gard to ethnic and social iden tification. Moreover, the Afro-American is not completely economically destitute; after all, he enjoys 27 billion dollars of the gross na tional product each year. No other colored people on the face of the earth enjoy as much as the Afro-American does. So that being hungry or naked is not the whole problem that black people in this country face. The crux of the problem is that the black man is still in a kind of psychological bondage that is worse than the physical slavery that he was freed from one hun dred years ago. The chains have been taken from his hands but they are still affixed to his mind. Psychological enslavement is worse because one has to dis cover his for himself. Take himself from himself. Take these chains from my hands and set me free is not applicable to the mind. Heretofore, Negro colleges have been enemies to the black psyche becduse it has perpetu ated white supremacy under the auspices of cultural hegemony or something. They have taught Negro students to despise their fathers and bow in consecration to a society which has hated their very being. They have successfully been the agent for brain-washing and a negative self concept of black students. Consequently, they knoW noth ing of their heritage, and of their history. Thusly, we are in an affluent society where black students are still destitute for a knowledge of self. Needless to say, that North Carolina College has been a victim of this negative indoctri nation. It has the chance to re deem itself, because it has made strides in the past to promote pride in a sense of achievement among black .students. This in stitution, for a long time has had courses in African and Afro- American history. These are positive steps in the right di rection. These courses have achieved for the most part an appetite for a deeper involve ment of black students in.the at tainment of their freedom. So then, the statement made by Dr. Whiting is my plea. Be cause he has recognized the needs of students as first of all an endowment of a concept of the self which is not ugly, self defeating, etc. Secondly, it was implicit in his speech to the faculty that this is the primary function of all education. This man needs praise for his new breed attitude, i.e. he is a new kind of President with whom the students identify. The catalyst for changing the arts, history and literature images is and always has been of any culture. I beseech the ad ministration and the faculty to shape images of the students by adding courses in black litera ture, history and arts. G. A. S. IS IN By ROBERT After weeks of soliciting stu dents for the newly established black oriented organization, Grassroots Association of/for Students, I have become increas ingly aware of the apathetic at titude of the masses on N.C.C.’s campus. The objectives of this group are complex while on the other hand very simple. Specifically, it has concerned itself with a new school of thought centered around the idea of Power Unity, that is Black Unity. We believe, there is a long felt need for more of our students to become concerned with community in volvement. It is both easy and grossly unfair to single out one of the many problems concern ing Durham, not to mention the E. SPRUILL communities to which you plan to return for the Thanksgiving or Christmas holidays. There is more to Durham than N.C.C. To put it bluntly, the traditional practice of blacks teaching blacks, blacks studying with blacks, blacks living with blacks, is truly a thing of the past. It’s going to be a bitter experience for some of us, no exposure, no foresight, no vision. What can happen, however is entirely up to you as an indi vidual, a black individual. One of the most promising and pro vocative individuals today is the black student, who has realized that there must be some contri bution that can be made for the betterment of the commu nity in which he lives. For one Progress, Power Means Viewed By Wayne Roberts Violence, death and a loss of unity have been the aftermath of black power. The Newark, New Jersey riot, for example, gives a vivid illustration of gross destruction for an unde fined term called “black pow er.” The stated motivation was police brutality, but the tactics used were not those of the past. There were no demonstrations, no attempts for negotiations, and no peaceful movements used to destroy the civil injustices— just violence. Men like Rap Brown, an advo cate of black power, preach vio lence successfully without ex plaining what the term black power means. The word “vio lence” is the key factor, whet- er stated indirectly or directly, with all black power advocates. The purpose for this is to create revolution. The Newark riot was not a revolution but a re bellion and to the black power advocate the chaos of a rebel lion is the starting point of a revolution. It gave the move ment a psychological benefit. Therefore, black power may be taken as black violence, and Newark most certainly had its share of that. Standing in the background of black power are the old peaceful movement methods once used to overcome civil wrongs, and it seems like they are there to stay. This is hard to believe when more and more Negroes are getting good edu cations. This leads the individual to think in terms of the peace ful civil rights movement as be ing inactive until men realize there is no difference between black and white, for one is de rived from the other and the other is derived from the same. Man is both, yet man is one, and a mixture of the other. Both are color and color is one, ex cept in the mind of man. There is no proof that is not theory, nor theory that is not part proof, for all his thoughts are formed by the past. The main purpose of this arti cle is to stimulate the students to think and respond. After a full c«nsiderat|ion of each re- spwnding student’s concept on the matter, we will compile all the information for a series of articles in an attempt to seek a universal solution as to what steps the Negro should take. Bring your response to the of fice of the Campus: Echo in the Student Union, or drop it in the box outside the door. SAYING OF THE MONTH The more words put into an idea, the less likely it is to be a good idea. moment let’s be honest with our selves. How many of you here can honestly say that you are from a utopian type communi ty? Well, how can you afford to be so indifferent about that which is occurring now. There is a growing question of whether there will be any need for Negro colleges in thg next 10 years or so. I pity your children, that is if their ideas will be centered upon compla cency as the bulk of yours seem to be. Think! Learn! Contribute! Now! Join G. A. S.! THI Kimm By Esther Silver Like Hurricane Beulah, smash ing her way unpredictably, blindly and irresistibly across The Rio Grande Valley, threat ening every living creatxare in her way, so is that dreadful hur ricane of fear and hate which has been called the White Back lash, smashing its way across America, a country which al leges as its goal, “One nation, indivisible, under God, with li berty and justice for all.” What has stimulated this un believable, ponderous movement of feeling and thought that we term the White Backlast? The answer, we are told, may be based in, two innocent words spoken by a very young Negro. The words? “Black Power!” But, what do these words actual ly stand for? Are they blind re actions, sweeping away every thing we Americans ultimately believe in? Are they “go” sig nals for race riots with killing and burning? Do they advocate violence or do they advocate life, self-respect, and humanity? While roving around campus, I asked several students, What Does Black Power Mean to You? What follows are the an swers that I was given. May God help us to understand “The Answer.” Francis L. Majette, Junior, History Major Black Power to me is the al location or distribution of pow er to the Negro on the basis of his actual populational repre sentation. To me Black Power is not dominancy but is equal ity in the strongest sense of the word. Black Power, to the Ne gro, means being able to func tion economically, socially, and politically in the country as a black group dedicated to all out unity. * * • Ronald Miller, Sophomore, English Major “Black Power” has sounded the call that a Negro can be what he is and still be a repu table human being. This resur gence of pride in the American Negro may very well prove his salvation in that he will put forth a vaster effort than ever before to reach the mainstream of American life — he now be lieves that he belongs there. At the forefront of the matter of Black Power, stand Stokely Car michael and Rap Brown, who with their clangorous remarks, ignite animosities in a long op pressed people. Although Car michael and Brown are the os tentatious Negro leaders, the final lines of the history of this era—^when they are written— are more likely to extol the Whitney Youngs, the Thurgood Marshalls, the Martin Luther Kings, men who exemplify vir tue in their feats, men who move implacably toward racial equality, who do not instigate matters and leave the masses to face the consequences alone. Unfortunately, no such virtues can be attributed to Brown and Carmichael. Sooner or later, the advocates of Black Power will find it imperative to slacken their paces for a moment and weigh the merits of their phi losophy. They will have to de cide if this philosophy is more at home with the belief of Lin coln, “The fight must go on. The cause of civil liberty must not be surrendered at the end of one or even one hundred de feats, or with Bertrand Russell’s ominous warning “All move ments go too far.” * « « David White, Freshman, ’ Political Science Major To me Black Power connotes “Organized Black Financial and Political Power. Without the financial or political power. Black Power is comparable to having an expensive race car without an engine. You have all the outward appearances of a fine tooled racing machine, but without the engine you have no source of power or authority. If we had “Organized Black” Financial and Political Power”, we black Americans would be able to talk the language that the white man understands and listens to, namely money. We would then be able to hit the white man where it hurts the most, in the pocket. We would not encounter congressman who laugh when we ask for rat con trol bills. We would then have financial power and politicial power; thus constituting all the , force we need to demand con structive action on our problems and solutions. When we neutra lize the financial and political power of the white structure in our society by gaining black financial and political power, we can strip the white Ameri can of the one weapon that he uses to keep us subservient, financial dependency. • • • Ingrid Parri^, Sophomore, English Major Wake-up and live is the plea I make to my people. I feel many Negroes are slaves with out chains because they are bound to servility, fear and su perstition. For these reasons, I feel Black Power is the answer to this problem. Yes, I believe in Black Power to the extent that we must learn to stand on our own feet and say, “No” to things we don’t believe in. How ever, I don’t feel violence and hate are necessary. I feel if we unite our ideas and forces, then, stick together as a whole, we can have Black Power because we’ll have Black Unity. * * * Elwood K. Callahan, Junior, Political Science Major Concerning Black Power, I feel that it is really in! I be lieve that it is the anwer to the Negro’s past failures in that it postulates unity of a black race. I feel that its basic theory is the extrication of “Jim Crow” atti tudes. It phases out the exist- ideas of integration; for present ideas of integration are beyond human acceptance. In short, Black Power leaders are trying to counter-act some of the in justices created by White Pow er. They countradict these ideas as any purposeful organization should do. Finally and most im portantly, Black Power advo cates instill in Negroes those qualities which they have in the past been ashamed of. They try to counteract some of the in human and not as he has been misjudged for so long by his counterparts. Due to the inhu man and immoral products of White Power, Black Power Leaders are even more deter mined to seek justice for their race than ever before, and I (See Inquiring Reporter, Page 5)
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